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Thomas Stolz (born July 14, 1957 in Dortmund ) is a German linguist and linguist .

person

Thomas H. Stolz grew up in Dortmund and is married to Christel Stolz. He received his doctorate in 1985 from the Faculty of Philology at the Ruhr University Bochum . After language courses in Rome , Bucharest , Siena , Akranes and Reykjavík , he completed his habilitation in general and comparative linguistics in 1991 with the subject of "Secondary Inflection - An Experiment on Purposefulness in Language Change ".

From 1991 to 1995 Thomas Stolz was a Heisenberg scholarship holder and, after working in Essen and Leipzig, Nijmegen and Berlin, came to Bremen in 1995, where he has held the professorship for linguistics at Faculty 10 of the University of Bremen since 1998 . Proudly conducted linguistic field research in Iceland and Malta as well as on the Yucatán Peninsula .

At present (2009) he is researching reduplication , European area linguistics , irregular morphology , and the individual languages Chamorro and Maltese .

In 1995, Stolz was awarded the Karl Arnold Prize of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences.

Research and work areas

• Typology (comparison and classification of languages)
• Universals research (determination of cross-lingual constants)
• Language contact (mutual influence of languages)
• Language change (historical change of languages)

activities

For the period from September 18, 2009 to October 7, 2009 Thomas Stolz organized the Festival of Languages in Bremen. He is editor-in-chief of the magazine Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung and publisher of the series Diversitas Linguarum and Studia Typologica , as well as co-editor of the magazine Ilsienna and the booklet series Il-Lingwa Taghna .

Furthermore, Thomas Stolz works in the following companies:

• Societas Linguistica Europea
• German Romanists Association
• Indo-European society
• Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages ​​of the Americas
• German - Maltese Society
• Association for Linguistic Typology
• Asociación Española de Estudios del Pacífico
• German-Faroese Circle of Friends

As well as President of

• Society for the Promotion of Linguistic Research in the Northwest (GFsFNW), and the
• International Association for Maltese Linguistics (GHILM)

Literature (selection)

author

• Split possession. John Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 2008 (with Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze)
• On comitatives and related categories. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2006
• Numerical classification in Classical Aztec. Lincom Europe, Munich / Newcastle 2001
• Sprachdynamik / Vol. 2. Grammaticalization and metaphorization. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1994
• Secondary flexion formation. Vol. 1 & 2. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1992
• Does the Creole language change model exist? Comparative grammar of Negro Dutch. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M.-Bern-New York 1986

editor

• Romanization in Africa: the influence of French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish on the indigenous languages ​​of Africa. Brockmeyer, Bochum 2009
• Aspects of language contact. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2008
• Hispanization. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2008
• Possession, quantitative typology and semiotics. Brockmeyer, Bochum 2006
• "Old" languages. Brockmeyer, Bochum 2004

Web links

• The festival of languages
• Complete list of publications
• Official website of the University of Bremen
• Homepage of the International Association for Maltese Linguistics (GHILM)
• Homepage of the Society for the Promotion of Linguistic Research in the Northwest (GFsFNW)